Enterprise DevOps is different: here’s why

The DevOps movement evolved to allow organizations to innovate fast and reduce risk. DevOps rethinks how software development and delivery occurs and it reshapes how IT is organized and how IT delivers value to the business. However, some “pure” DevOps ideas are difficult to implement in highly regulated, large enterprises.

A question of scale

When the organization is required to meet strict government audit and compliance standards, when you have optimized IT delivery around a monolithic, centralized infrastructure and when you have specialist teams to manage discreet technologies, it is very difficult to relax those controls and remove the barriers in order to adopt a shared-ownership model called DevOps. Yet implementing DevOps is exactly what over a quarter of the largest global IT teams are doing today.

So how do highly regulated, large enterprises benefit and succeed with DevOps?

Kevin Parker is a 30 year industry veteran, holder of three technology patents and is VP of Worldwide Marketing at Serena Software. He speaks and writes on application development methodologies, business analysis, quality assurance techniques, governance, open source issues, and tool interoperability, from the mainframe to distributed platforms to the web and mobile and embedded systems.